Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-19 | Page 12 | Backseat Driving

Backseat Driving By Frank K Baker Telegram Sports Editor Some of the Boys Refuse To Sit and Wait Maybe Milton never wrote basebalL basebalL base base- balL If he had been a J. J baseball writer that line might have read They also aso serve who only omy SIT and wait walt At any rate an increasing number of people in the major leagues who were playing regularly not riot so long ago aco are finding themselves es watching some of the cames from the dugouts Big Dale Ox Alexander is one of the outstanding examples of reclining reclining re se- clining dining servitude A A. few v days before the present season opened the Ox t seemed to have everything his own I way He had been playing first base basel basey y i l for the Tigers for three years and I hitting an average of Then on the eve of opening day Detroit purchased pur pus 1 chased young Harry Han Davis from Tor Tor- Tort t onto I I Big Alex spent his twenty seventh birthday sitting on the bench waitIng waiting wait wait- ing for his chance to go in there and pinch Davis looks like a 8 swell fielder says the Ox And Im I'm satisfied if he can do better around the base than I could Of course it hasn't been proved pro that he can hit in this league And its it's a long summer The old age-old bench philosophy is expressed expressed cx- cx ex ex- pressed in that last line and in the Ox's case is quite quEte sound for Alexander Alexander Alexan Alexan- der Is is getting back in the harness for his share of t the e games already